Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

slams to take part III the Paris EXPOSE
ton in 1889.
At President Cleveland's public re-
ception, Monday, JOHN l.. Sullivan
| took his hand.
Several thousand carpenters in Chi
cago and one thousand III Cincinnati
went on strike Monday.
The Illinois Senate passed a bill to
indemnify owners of property for dam
ages caused by mobs.
By an explosion in q coal mine at
Savannah, Indian Territory, twelve
Italians lost their lives.
The cotton factors and buyers of
New Orleans have resolved to employ
no members of the labor unions.
Spencer Smith, an attorney of
Council Bluffs, has been appointed
railroad commissioner Of Iowa.
Colonel r. G. Ingersoll, who was on
Friday admitted to practice III the
courts of New York, refused to be
sworn.
A steamer carrying eleven hundred
Cinnamon, with smallpox among
them, arrived Monday at San Fran
cisco.
Forty persons were killed or in
jured on Sunday at LlnguagloSs,
Sicily, by the collapse of church
roof.
A company has been organized in
Louisiana, partly by western men, to
build a railway from Alexandria to
Houston.
Robert T. Lincoln offers the Spring
field homestead to the State of Hi
nois on condition that it be preserved
with care.
William Kyle, a wholesale liquor
dealer of Toronto, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary for
forging notes.
The senate of Pennsylvania has
passed bill providing that murderers
Of the first degree may be put to death
by electricity.
Both branches of the Connecticut
legislature have passed a bill provid-
ing for weekly payments to employees
Of corporations.
Pleuro-pneumonia has been almost
suppressed at Boston, but has appear
ed in the herd Of Mr.. Barrow, at Sa-
lem. New York.
Queen Victoria arrived at Cannes,
Friday, amid the cheers of the people
and a salute by the French Mediter-
ranean squadron.
The British house of commons
passed cloture by a vote of 361 to 253,
and agreed upon the first reading Of
the coercion bill.
Six men were frightfully burned by
an explosion of molten metal in the
Edgar Thomson steel-works at Brad
dock, Pennsylvania.
A statue of Schuyler COlfax is to be
unveiled at Indianapolis, May s, by the
Odd-fellows. The figure is being cast
in bronze at Chicago.
It is rumored in New York that Mrs.
John A. Logan is preparing for publ
cation novel treating OF society at
the national capital
Miss Catherine Wolfe, of New York,
known throughout the United States
for her wealth and benevOlence, eX-
PRED Monday morning.
A tract Of land seven miles from
Denver, protfered by committee of
citizens, has been accepted by General
Sheridan for military post.
AS the tenants on the Irish estates
of Lord LansdOwne refuse to COM
promise, the eviction of all in arrears
will be commenced on April 20.
Wreckage discovered in Buena Vista
bay, Newfoundland, serves to confirm
the rumored loss of the sailing steam
er Eagle, with crew of $50 men.
Reports so far received indicate
that, owing to the drought, the wheat
crop of California will not be more
than two-thirds the average yield.
The District Attorney at New York
has decided to bring Jacob Sharp to
trial IN May for completely in the
Broadway Surface Railroad bribery.
Farm lands in the vicinity of Cool
idge, Kansas. have since Friday adj
vanced to $3.50 per acre, on account of
the development of two veins of coal.
Henry M. Stanley writes that the
British fleet at Zanzibar has given way
to the German, and that traders Of the
latter nationality are in the majority.
Herr Most, since his release from a
New York prison, promises to be more
outspoken in his anarchism than ever,
and to seek out scandals among the
rich.
A gentleman in Washington has re-
ceiVed adviceS from England that the
worse than when he sailed from New
York.
The birthday Of General Grant will
be celebrated Oy the Americas club of
Pittsburg by banquet on April q.
Roscoe Conkling has promised to
attend.
Natural gas was found in hill near
West Covington, Kentucky, at a
depth of $50 feet. Money has been
subscribed to sink a we'll at La Porte,
Indiana.
The Chief Justice of Montana has
decided that commercial travellers
representing foreign houses can not be
compelled to pay the Territorial
license.
The Ohio River Railroad has filed at
New York mortgage for three mill
ion dollars to secure payment of bonds
issued, payable in fifty years, at five
per cent.
The indictments recently found
against present and former commits
sioners of Cook county Ill. number
200, and against wardens and con-
| tractors 102.
The Montgomery and Atlanta mill
tary companies have resolved to with
draw from the Washington drill be-
cause of the admission of cOlored or
CARNATIONS.
A siX-foot driftway is being rapidly
| constructed under the ST Clair river